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On prejudices

November 28, 2021

Confirmation bias and its role in culture and society.

On driving too fast

November 19, 2021

In this week’s Multicultural Man column, Will writes about his second speed-awareness course, this time a virtual experience.

A Posthumous Shock: How everything became trauma

November 18, 2021

A long essay in Harper’s Magazine argues that the symptoms we now call PTSD are only an extreme version of a distinctively modern consciousness.

NEW: Listen to Harper’s Magazine web editor Violet Lucca talking to Will about his essay:

Harper’s Magazine · A Posthumous Shock

The Great British Bake Off

November 16, 2021

On the politics behind the nation’s beloved baking show.

A Point of View: Car hatred

October 31, 2021

Will’s blistering attack on cars and their drivers, who are “told they have the ability to go anywhere when the truth is they’re shackled to a grotesque and Sisyphean go-round: they have to make the money, to pay for the car, to sit in the traffic jam, to make the money to pay for the car” for A Point of View on Radio 4.

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The Will Tower · First Edition

The Gulf War Did Take Place… The Gulf War Is Taking Place… The Gulf War Will Always Be Taking Place…

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